S3 Ep80: Ransomware news, phishing woes, NAS bugs, and a giant hole in Java [Podcast]

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Either know the private key and use it scrupulously in your digital signature calculation…. or just send a bunch of zeros instead.
by Paul Ducklin The annual Pwn2Own contest features live hacking where top cybersecurity researchers duke it out under time pressure for huge cash prizes. Their quest: to prove that the exploits they claim to have discovered really do work under real-life conditions. Indeed, Pwn2Own is a bug bounty program with . . . Read more
CISA warns the leading enterprise document management platform is open to attack and urges companies to apply fixes. Xerox issued a fix for two vulnerabilities impacting its market-leading DocuShare enterprise document management platform. The bugs, if exploited, could expose DocuShare users to an attack resulting in the loss of sensitive . . . Read more
The modular malware is highly sophisticated but may not be able to capture credit-card info. ModPipe, a previously unknown backdoor, has been purpose-built to attack restaurant point-of-sale (PoS) solutions from Oracle. It’s notable for its unusual sophistication, according to researchers, evidenced by its multiple modules. The code is specifically taking . . . Read more
A threat actor is compromising telecommunications companies and targeted financial and professional consulting industries using an Oracle flaw. A previously known threat group, called UNC1945, has been compromising telecommunications companies and targeting financial and professional consulting industries, by exploiting a security flaw in Oracle’s Solaris operating system. Researchers said that . . . Read more
The remote code-execution flaw (CVE-2020-14750) is low-complexity and requires no user interaction to exploit. Oracle has released a rare out-of-band patch for a remote code-execution flaw in several versions of its WebLogic server. The vulnerability (CVE-2020-14750) has a CVSS base score of 9.8 out of 10, and is remotely exploitable . . . Read more
The flaw in the console component of the WebLogic Server, CVE-2020-14882, is under active attack, researchers warn.
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